Chapter 141

*Kaelen*

She wasn’t in the tents.

Wasn’t near the stream or the training ridge. Not with Rowan or Slo or anywhere near Varis, which had at first come as a relief, then as a quiet gnaw of dread.

Because when Elora disappeared, she never just wandered. She either burned or bled. Or both.

I tracked her through scent and silence. The forest thinned the farther I went, moonlight pooling between the tre